Constructed Thoughts: Built | Unbuilt
May 18, 2009
Photojournalism - Photography, Video and Visual Journalism - Lens Blog
NY Times has launched an interesting online journal/blog that chronicles photo essays and video features....
Slow Photography in an Instantaneous Age
NY Times has launched an interesting online journal/blog that chronicles photo essays and video features....
May 17, 2009
May 16, 2009
Web site sparks creative ideas for city's vacant lots
Here is a story about a website that asks people to create their own images about different visions for infill in Baltimore on blocks with vacant row houses.
John Ruppert also submitted a waterfall. (Courtesy of John Ruppert)
Follow up to the post:: Web site sparks creative ideas for city's vacant lots
May 14, 2009
May 13, 2009
May 11, 2009
May 10, 2009
Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabets Selected Works
Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabet | Selected Works
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
Tangled Alphabets | Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel
Leon Ferrari & Mira Schendel | Tangled Alphabets Timeline
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
The exhibition at MoMA, Tangled Alphabets redefines Typography as a spatial construct…. The works presented describe an architecture of ‘type’ - of the constructed ‘word’ that is tactile, hollow, and brittle and occupies space while defining it. Word as a ‘figure’ and not merely ‘texture’ or ‘ground’ repositions Gestalt in a whole different way. It’s the other that defines what is ‘between’. What separates is what connects and creates space between words, texts and the Type through ‘difference’.
The way Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel employ ‘type’ to lay down geographies of space and culture and what lies in between……. -Viren
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May 9, 2009
The Harlem Miracle - NYTimes.com
Here is a heartening piece about Harlem's Charter Schools Program, and what small steps can do if thought out in big ways.
"The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious evaluations and you find that these inspiring places are only producing incremental gains."
"The fight against poverty produces great programs but disappointing results. You go visit an inner-city school, job-training program or community youth center and you meet incredible people doing wonderful things. Then you look at the results from the serious evaluations and you find that these inspiring places are only producing incremental gains."
May 8, 2009
YouTube - You and Your Browser
Google Chrome Commercial to air on TV! Sounds like an oxymoron? It ain't!
May 5, 2009
May 2, 2009
Museums - In Berlin, Teaching Germany’s Jewish History
Say it as it is. Unpretentious criticism of architecture is so rare! Here is an exception - It draws attention to 'lost space' of critical debate lacking in contemporary writing about architecture. As all serious architects, writers and those who still believe that architecture has a place in the process of cultural production know how architecture has become increasingly about itself and lost its 'reflexive' nature.
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April 27, 2009
April 26, 2009
Paul Sahre Video Encore
Paul Sahre: A Designer And His Problems from AIGA/NY on Vimeo.
Source: AIGANY
Paul Share: A Designer and His Problems was originally presented on 6 February 2009 in the Katie Murphy Amphitheater at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City.
April 25, 2009
April 24, 2009
April 21, 2009
Advertising - A Magazine Just for You Arrives With Glitches - NYTimes.com
The shrinking world of advertising prompts magazines to shrink, shred and now redefine themselves for the digital age - learning from the online social media networks, online feeds, Twitter frenzy, Facebook and the likes....
Custom-made ads come along with the package.
Custom-made ads come along with the package.
April 20, 2009
April 18, 2009
April 16, 2009
April 12, 2009
April 9, 2009
April 8, 2009
April 7, 2009
Maps - Density of Cultural Events in New York and Los Angeles
Mapping the ‘WHA...’?!!
Spatial mapping is about interpreting data, spatially - not just documenting what we already know but to infer useful information and deduce insights. Disappointing 'much ado about nothing' is how I would describe this euphorically broadcast event by NY Times in today's issue. The project seems to be less about mapping the buzz but rather creating a buzz around mapping nothing.... unfortunately. Instead of mapping the ecology of real culture in terms of production and consumption and show how it may define, show or map culture and cultural space in the cities - the project draws swift and limited conclusions based on a very limited premise of how media views and covers the so-called high-end "cultural events". It also fails to take into account the advent of the internet and how the social ecologies of space have been transforming and generating other forms of cultural topographies hitherto unknown. Sometime this week, Facebook expects to register its 200 millionth user (Facebook amasses 200 million strong population worldwide - that would make it the 5th largest country in the world!).
Under the context of globalization and global connectivity, the question about 'culture' hangs in balance, simultaneously challenging the primary role of history, theory and philosophy. Driven by the proliferation of information and communication technologies, our spatial and visual culture is also changing. In my view, this visualization/mapping project fails to examine and explore Mapping as a tool for making city legible. It does not address urban culture from this vantage point, and has limited or no usefulness for those who care to understand cities and how the physical and social spaces diverge or intersect to define cultural geographies....
It is also sad to note that New York Times, that has lately been championing the useful art of info-graphics for socially conscious issues and matters, finds this worthy of being printed on its pages...
Spatial mapping is about interpreting data, spatially - not just documenting what we already know but to infer useful information and deduce insights. Disappointing 'much ado about nothing' is how I would describe this euphorically broadcast event by NY Times in today's issue. The project seems to be less about mapping the buzz but rather creating a buzz around mapping nothing.... unfortunately. Instead of mapping the ecology of real culture in terms of production and consumption and show how it may define, show or map culture and cultural space in the cities - the project draws swift and limited conclusions based on a very limited premise of how media views and covers the so-called high-end "cultural events". It also fails to take into account the advent of the internet and how the social ecologies of space have been transforming and generating other forms of cultural topographies hitherto unknown. Sometime this week, Facebook expects to register its 200 millionth user (Facebook amasses 200 million strong population worldwide - that would make it the 5th largest country in the world!).
Under the context of globalization and global connectivity, the question about 'culture' hangs in balance, simultaneously challenging the primary role of history, theory and philosophy. Driven by the proliferation of information and communication technologies, our spatial and visual culture is also changing. In my view, this visualization/mapping project fails to examine and explore Mapping as a tool for making city legible. It does not address urban culture from this vantage point, and has limited or no usefulness for those who care to understand cities and how the physical and social spaces diverge or intersect to define cultural geographies....
It is also sad to note that New York Times, that has lately been championing the useful art of info-graphics for socially conscious issues and matters, finds this worthy of being printed on its pages...
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